A Bruit Secret / Pandora’s Box

The secret sound of painting.

A Bruit Secret / Pandora’s Box is a site-specific installation realised in 2010 within the deconsecrated church of San Lorenzo in Poppi, Tuscany.

The work unfolds as a symbolic constellation: ten fresco portraits of modern artists appear on the walls like secular icons, while at the centre the painting A Bruit Secret & Pandora’s Box occupies the niche of the former altar.

Borrowing its title from Marcel Duchamp’s famous ready-made, the installation acts as a visual koan — a paradox designed to suspend habitual thought and invite the viewer to perceive the “secret sound”.